NVIDIA Vera CPU First Benchmarks: Custom 88-Core Olympus ARM Chip Outperforms AMD EPYC 9575F and Intel Xeon 6980P
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Phoronix published first independent benchmarks of NVIDIA's Vera CPU with 88 custom Olympus ARM cores. Results: 10% faster than AMD EPYC 9575F (5.0GHz), 1.55x Intel Xeon 6980P, and 1.63x NVIDIA's own Grace. Olympus features a 10-wide instruction front-end (matching Apple M silicon), 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth, neural branch predictor evaluating two branches per cycle, and claimed 1.5x IPC improvement over previous gen. NVIDIA's boldest move into the general-purpose CPU market.